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		<title>Sotomayor and Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the years of virulent racism that minorities in our country have faced throughout our history, it is a bit shocking to see right wingers like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh accuse Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic ever nominated to that Court, of being a &#8220;racist,&#8221; based solely on one remark that she made in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chief Justice Roberts &amp; the Frankenstein Monster</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when some influential scholars are championing the idea that not all the members of the Court should be lawyers, Chief Justice Roberts embraces the view that it would be good for all the members of the Court to be former federal appellate judges. For the first time in American history all Supreme Court Justices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Back to Reconstruction</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=2247</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Zietlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a constitutional law conference that I recently attended, a friend of mine commented, &#8220;We always seem to go back to Reconstruction.&#8221;  I agreed.  For many of us, Reconstruction was the Second Founding, when the People repaired the pro-slavery constitution and replaced it with one that commits the federal government to protecting individual rights.
The Reconstruction era [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earmarks and Block Grants</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Henry L. Chambers, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John McCain continues to discuss earmarks as though they are the second greatest threat to America, after radical Islam, of course.  He suggests that earmarking – the practice of a congressman or senator directing how specific funds in an appropriations bill will be spent &#8211;  are the budget-busting bane of America’s existence.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Levinson&#8217;s Fix for Our Broken Constitution</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=1711</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Last Friday evening, Bill Moyers interviewed Sanford Levinson, one of the most creative, provocative, and influential constitutional scholars of his generation. The topic of the interview was Professor Levinson&#8217;s 2006 book entitled Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Begin Correcting It) [hereinafter cited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Interpetation Wars &amp; Sisyphusian Constitutionalism</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=1562</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an intellectual enterprise &#8220;constitutional interpretation&#8221; is one of the more essentially contested forms of inquiry.  This doesn&#8217;t seem to trouble members of the constitutional community. Jurists will continue to fight the &#8220;interpretation wars&#8221; knowing, if they&#8217;re not self-deceived, that no one methodology or system of methodologies will ever succeed in capturing the imagination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Constitutional &#8220;Law&#8221; Law?</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=1468</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American politics is in the grip of two myths about judicial constitutionalism. The first myth is that hot-button constitutional controversies have one, definite right answer. The one right answer might be difficult to find, but there is no doubt that it exists. Usually these &#8220;one right answers&#8221; correspond to what the jurist, scholar, attorney, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Jesus Christ Be George W. Bush&#8217;s Favorite &#8220;Political Philosopher&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=1184</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 2000 presidential election, then governor, George W. Bush was asked who his favorite political philosopher was. He replied that his favorite political philosopher is Jesus Christ. One wonders whether Mr. Bush has ever read a book on a traditional political philosopher, for example, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls, or Nozick. For that matter has he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Moyer&#8217;s Journal: Should Bush and Cheney Be Impeached?</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=1174</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Moyer interviewed Bruce Fein and John Nichols, two unlikely joint-crusaders, on the possibility of impeaching both the President and the Vice-President. (You can see it here.)The bottom line, especially for Mr. Fein, is that impeachment is essential for constitutional, not personal, reasons. Both Messrs. Bush and Cheney have committed political crimes and, if they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Impeach Bush-Cheney!</title>
		<link>http://essentiallycontestedamerica.org/?p=1132</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Justin Lipkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will history&#8217;s verdict be on United States citizens and their governmental representatives in Congress if we do not at least try to remove Bush-Cheney from office? Two fundamentally important reasons exist for impeaching Bush-Cheney and removing them from office. The first reason emphasizes the importance of getting Messrs. Bush and Cheney, in Keith Olbermann&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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